Could this spell the end of expensive, heavy and short-lived, corrosive lead acid batteries? I’ve been researching about ways to use a mechanical means of storage versus the chemical methods using batteries. The best alternative I could come up with was to use energy when available to lift a weight (as high as possible) and […]
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a great rocket stove
this stove is described fairly thoroughly and I felt like it may be a good one to try to replicate when the time comes. This serves as my bookmark for it Hope you like it. Cheers!
cold box, canoes and cabins
This gentleman is an inspiration. He is unafraid to tackle anything with creativity and his own two hands. Check out the cabin that he built from harvesting trees from the bay around the 12:30 mark…amazing!
Rocket Hot Water Heater
This is a pretty incredible design for a water heater using a rocket stove. I really enjoy Geoff Lawton and hope you will too.
Rocket Oven
This guy has a great setup. He has a rocket stove burner and a rocket oven, both built from clay and straw. Cooking off-grid will not be an issue for this fella! Great work
small cube house
this house is pretty cool. 100 square feet and 1000 cubic feet! that’s an incredibly small house!
murphy bed ideas
some videos i’ve been collecting along the way about building murphy beds and the associated hardware in the comments on the video above one person says to just go to pick-a-part and buy van door lift struts and mounts to build a bed for cheap. i think this is more than doable for the tiny […]
Building a Tow-Mixer
I’ve been thinking quite a bit about gasification and it’s ability to produce both combustible producer gas and heat for our future homestead. How sustainable is using wood (ie trees) for power and heat? I guess that depends how heavily wooded our land is…however for most, this probably isn’t sustainable. But could it be? I […]
Waste Oil Heating Stove
I’ve seen quite a few of these types of waste oil stoves slapped together from old water heaters using gravity fed, drip systems but this heater is phenomenally built. Enjoy!
Off-grid washing machine
I’ve seen this idea before, but never engineered in such a way that the bike (as well as the wash tub) remained completely mobile.
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